Artists

Conductor

Yutaka Sado

About

Freedom, fraternity and humanity – this is what Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony stands for. It opens the 10th Grafenegg Festival, performed by the Tonkünstler Orchestra, joined by 24 alumni of the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) and ‘a soloist quartet which no one could possibly imagine to be more prestigious’ (Die Presse). ‘Vogt’s tenor and the Wiener Singverein were especially moving’ (Wiener Zeitung)
and ‘the vocal performance by excellent bass René Pape, the fabulous
soprano Camilla Nylund and the brilliant mezzosoprano Elena Zhidkova… in
Beethoven’s Ninth was just sensational. Bravo!’ (Kurier) Composer in Residence Christian Jost’s new work also centres around Beethoven, featuring the song An die Hoffnung (‘To Hope’), and ‘convincingly used an impressive orchestra’ (Der Standard), with ‘tenor Klaus Florian Vogt as a well-cast soloist’ (Salzburger Nachrichten).